Spies, Hollywood And Neocons Team Up To Create New War Propaganda Firm (Annotated)

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“The Russians are coming!” Hollywood’s liberaloid edition of God is telling us, so it must be true.

“We have been attacked. We are at war.”

So begins a video released today by The Committee to Investigate Russia, an organization founded by When Harry Met Sally director Rob Reiner and neoconservative senior editor of The Atlantic David Frum. The video, which stars Morgan Freeman and is rife with patriotic images of American flags, soldiers and bald eagles, continues as follows:

Imagine this movie script: A former KGB spy, angry at the collapse of his motherland, plots a course for revenge. Taking advantage of the chaos, he works his way up through the ranks of a post-Soviet Russia, and becomes president. He establishes an authoritarian regime, then he sets his sights on his sworn enemy: the United States. And like the true KGB spy he is, he secretly uses cyber warfare to attack democracies around the world. Using social media to spread propaganda and false information, he convinces people in democratic societies to distrust their media, their political processes, even their neighbors. And he wins.

Vladimir Putin is that spy, and this is no movie script.

We need our president to speak directly to us and tell us the truth. We need him to sit behind the desk in the Oval Office and say, “My fellow Americans. During this past election, we came under attack by the Russian government. I’ve called on Congress and our intelligence community to use every resource available to conduct a thorough investigation to determine exactly how this happened.”

The free world is counting on us for leadership. For 241 years, our democracy has been a shining example to the world of what we can all aspire to. And we owe it to the brave people who have fought and died to protect this great nation and save democracy. And we owe it to our future generations to continue the fight.

For generations, ppl have fought to protect democracy. Now it’s our turn. Watch Morgan Freeman explain Russia’s plot to undermine the U.S. pic.twitter.com/t65wckbmxS

Firstly, the establishment narrative that Russia used cyber warfare to hand the election to Donald Trump remains wholly unsubstantiated and riddled with gaping plot holes that the US intelligence community has yet to address; there is currently no publicly available evidence whatsoever that the Russian government did what Morgan Freeman tells us it did, let alone that Donald Trump was involved in it. The Russian hacking narrative is getting flimsier by the day, with the assertion that WikiLeaks is a Kremlin proxy being sorely weakened just today by a new leak drop on Russian surveillance activities, which itself comes on the back of an extensive amount of critical Russia-related leaks that the transparency organization had already published.

Establishment loyalists only believe the Russian government hacked the Democratic party and gave its emails to WikiLeaks because pundits, politicians and celebrities have been saying this happened in an authoritative tone, not because there’s any publicly available evidence for it. In a post-Iraq invasion world, this is simply unacceptable.

Secondly, the assertion that America is currently at war with Russia is horrifying, and if Americans start swallowing this disgusting propaganda there’ll be no public outcry if the US really does enter into actual warfare with the only other nuclear superpower on the planet. The evidence-free assertion that America has “been attacked” is plainly geared to elicit a fear response from the video’s intended audience and manufacture support for counter-attacks and/or dangerous new cold war escalations.

Third, a blatant war psy-op advanced by Bush-era neocons bitching about the Russian government using propaganda is hilarious.

Fourth, the notion that “the free world is counting” on the US for leadership is moronic flag-waving, chest-pounding bullshit. I assure you that the free world is not counting on any such thing. The idea that America is destined to occupy a dominant role in world affairs is an integral part of neoconservative PNAC doctrine, which posits that its victory in the Cold War means history has selected the United States to hold a unique position of leadership over the rest of the world. Most US military aggression since the end of the Cold War can be seen as a nonstop global disruption campaign to prevent the rise of another rival superpower like the Soviet Union, and the neocons have been responsible for spearheading this initiative.

Former Bush speechwriter David Frum, author of the infamous “Axis of Evil” claim in Bush’s 2002 State of the Union address, has a Newsweek column this morning announcing that “all of us who advocated for the [Iraq] war have had to do some reckoning”. His column is an attempt to provide such a reckoning, and contains numerous revealing assertions. He begins with this melodramatic decree, designed to make you sympathetic of the stressful and scary environment in which Bush officials were operating: “My youngest daughter was born in December 2001: a war baby.” To justify this characterization, he says that “when my wife nursed little Beatrice in the middle of the night, she’d hear F-16s patrolling the Washington skies,” and that “a few weeks before, a sniper had terrorized the Washington suburbs. Anthrax attacks had killed five people and infected 17 others. What would come next?” (In actuality, the anthrax attacks came from a US Army lab; the Washington sniper attacks were in 2002, not 2001, and were perpetrated by two Americans; and hearing some F-16s patrolling the sky is hardly the stuff of extreme war trauma, particularly when compared to what people in actual war zones regularly experience). Frum is right that the fear levels were extremely high in this time period, but that was due to a deliberate campaign orchestrated by the administration in which he served.

David Frum, author of President George W. Bush’s infamous “Axis of Evil” talking point, is a notorious neoconservative who has been pushing for war at every opportunity for nearly two decades. He is an unforgivable bloodthirsty psychopath, and everything he touches is cancer.

In addition to Reiner — a virulent #Resistance Clintonist and Russiagate conspiracy theorist — Frum’s advisory board for his new Committee to Start World War Three includes PNAC signatory Max Boot, who has relentlessly pushed for increased US military aggression throughout his entire career, and who once called in plain English for America to “unambiguously to embrace its imperial role.”

There’s also former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who has on more than one occasion voiced blatantly racist opinions about the nefarious genetic predispositions of the entire population of Russia. This eugenicist bigot’s handful of hand-picked analysts were behind the conclusions drawn in the intelligence community’s official statements regarding the alleged Russian election interference, forming both (A) the basis for the false narrative that there is unanimous consensus within the intelligence community about Russian hacking and (B) the foundation for the entire Russiagate conspiracy theory.

Also on the advisory board are Norman Ornstein of the neocon think tankAmerican Enterprise Institute and conservative never-Trump pundit Charlie Sykes, who laughably just used the term “strange bedfellows” in reference to the idea of neoconservative Democrats working with neoconservative Republicans to advance their common goal of endless war.

As viscerally disturbing as it is to see the actor who played God conducting a brazen psy-op on the American people, it is already a well-documented factthat the CIA, the NSA and the Pentagon have been balls deep in Hollywood for decades. They’re just being more blatant about that collaboration now.

As Noam Chomsky puts it:

“Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business…the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.”

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Caitlin Johnstone is a brave journalist, political junkie, relentless feminist, champion of the 99 percent. And a powerful counter-propaganda tactician.

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE—Secondly, the assertion that America is currently at war with Russia is horrifying, and if Americans start swallowing this disgusting propaganda there’ll be no public outcry if the US really does enter into actual warfare with the only other nuclear superpower on the planet. The evidence-free assertion that America has “been attacked” is plainly geared to elicit a fear response from the video’s intended audience and manufacture support for counter-attacks and/or dangerous new cold war escalations.FINAL COMMENT BY THE EDITOR

Rob Reiner, poster boy for the betrayals of liberalism.Reiner, born to entertainment royalty, got his breakout role in the countercultural hit ALL IN THE FAMILY, where he played the peace-loving, premature PC, anti-establishment son-in-law to Archie Bunker. For many years now an industry insider, and a card-carrying Zionist, he’s 1q00% establishment, and pro-war, but not just run of the mill war, but nuclear war if necessary. How far we have come, Bob. Trust the liberals at your expense.

Reiner—as the “Meathead”. Those were the days

Reiner today, fat and rich, as full-fledged propagandist and member of the imperialist, Neocon Russophobic establishment: a virulent #Resistance Clintonist and Russiagate conspiracy theorist, according to Caitlin Johnstone, and we agree.

Parting shot—a word from the editorsThe Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found

In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” — acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump — a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.—Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report

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Carmen VargasSeptember 24, 2017 - 7:05 pm

Frum is a criminal Zionist/Neocon asshole that deserves Nuremberg gallows. Rob Reiner was an obnoxious insufferable POS in his youth, and now he’s that, still, but radioactive. The author and the editor are right: mainstream liberals —especially these papmpred Hollywood celebs—make excrement look good. Freeman is just disgusting. What an Uncle Tom!

Without a pejorative intent, one observes that the USA is an intensely bourgeois society with often petty bourgeois mores, which is fine as it creates a coherent safe human environment of conventional rules and promotes a solid sense of a well-delineated territory. It sets it apart from an unknown outside world that appears only as a back drop to what is of essence within the empire. A similar but less well-defined social attitude pervaded in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but because the media and communications have developed since so much and so quickly, it is more of a unifying mental entity now in the USA. It isolates the country because it encapsulates all controversies within totalitarian mind sets. Bourgeoisies do not really exist outside the Western hemisphere and in Europe are far more porous and less omni-present regarding percentage-wise. There is escape in Europe from the dominant disinformation and less of a stultifying propaganda rush. The USA has become a metaphor for stubborn intolerance of alternative ideas and despite the many warring factions which make use of a usual liberal acceptance of incompatible notions, keep the status quo well intact. It is quite hard for the public within this totalitarian universe to apprehend how much they remain enslaved, not in a capitalist mode but in from birth almost on ignorance of totally opposed a-materialist ideologies. It certainly will help to feel secure and justified in rowing onward with the crowd, but unfortunately human consciousness is not to be cowed and a sense of loss is to be seen in many of the elderly USA public. How empty is unobserved life and how degrading it must be to realize that nothing ever mattered except acquisition of goods and their disposal. It is the modern world’s nightmare of surfeit of stuff burying humans, animals and nature.

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